Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality

by Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson

Book Overview

Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace.

In Corrupt Illinois, veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take aim at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers through a gallery of rogues and rotten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252078551
• ISBN13: 9780252078552
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"